OBSERVATIONS OF MARS

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 318, 23 August 1924, Page 5

OBSERVATIONS OF MARS

THOSE ARE NOT 'CANALS I

SOME MORE GUESSWORK,

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(Received Aug. 23, 0.5 a.m.) .London, Aug. 22

The 'Daily Mail's .longfrau (Switzerland) correspondent says that after rnririths of concentrated attentioti on 'Mars, Professor Sc'.hae'r 'is only able to tell a. tale of confusedly shifting shadows and baffling patches with points of light. The most powerful telescope, magnifying 500 tomes, reveals that th« clean cut ennrils—which enthusiastic astronomers once believed-melt into, •dim, dark patches, the nature oi; which can only he guessed at. Professor Schae'r lias seen th«* white polar cap contact visibly with the last few Avecks. WHAT IS THE COLOUR SCHEME? New York, Aug. 22. The Lick Observatory had two clear nights for viewing Mars. Photographic plates sensitised to different colours, are being exposed, in the hope that through a comparison of colour phases, found on Mars !<;* secrets regarding' the presence life and vegetation may be 7-evealed., MORE DIFFERING IDEAS. Professor Lafnplane, of Lowell University, following his tests on Wednesday night, states that he discovered that the Martian range up to 50, degrees centigrade. No heat emanates, from the Martin" Poles, which appear to be covered with snow until well into summer. The equatorial regions are warmov than those towards the Poles. These conditions, disclosed by using specially designed •instrumenti. Conflict with those obtained by mafch< 1 - matical calculations, and suggest that the mean temperature, instep of being below freezing point, is probably much above it.